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HUB24 lifts targets

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 20 AUG 2018
... our expectations last year," it said. The platform provider said it expects departures of insto-aligned advisers from the big four, AMP and IOOF. "We expect the key impacts of Royal Commission will represent an acceleration of existing forces at play ...

LIT serves up junk bonds to SMSFs

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 20 AUG 2018
... rated BB or B by the three major rating houses. "Junk bonds isn't really a suitable label, after all, these are bonds with big global companies like Mattel, Fiat, Hertz and the market has matured dramatically since the 1980s," Bommi said. "Back then ...

Royal Commission on social media: Regulators under scrutiny

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 17 AUG 2018
... Employment lawyer David Taylor expressed the view that Australia's corporate and prudential regulators are afraid to go after big financial institutions. The Royal Commission into the banks is further proof of the value and morality of industry superannuation ...

Advisers can help democratise philanthropy

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 17 AUG 2018
... sacrifice financial returns. Williams told SSGA's Winning Edge event yesterday that the days of seeing philanthropy as writing a "big cheque" after amassing a lot of money in the hope it will make a difference are gone. Modern philanthropy is seen as ...

Frequent traders re-evaluate broking landscape

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 16 AUG 2018
... investors (both frequent and infrequent) moved to another online broker in the period. "The improved retention efforts of the big four brokers - CommSec, ANZ, Westpac and nabtrade - has kept switching to a minimum," Guiamatsia said. The number of Australian ...

Alternative investment manager partners with VC firm

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 AUG 2018
... across about 24 companies in emerging and frontier technologies (AR/VR, AI, drones, robotics, autonomous mobility and IoT), big data, cybersecurity, enterprise SaaS. Auctus will pay up to $1 million to Scout Venture's Bradley C. Harrison. It has also ...

Financial services confidence continues spiral

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 AUG 2018
A corporate governance expert believes confidence in Australia's financial institutions will continue to fall while they remain exposed to the pursuit of profit to the detriment of customers. Governance Institute of Australia chief executive Steven ...

Finding value in Fairfax

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 AUG 2018
There are signs of life in Fairfax yet but the big banks are less promising, according to Auscap Asset Management. Speaking at the Financial Standard Adviser Big Day Out in Wollongong this morning, Auscap head of distribution Lee Hopperton provided ...

Chief economist update: Small business is big business

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 AUG 2018
... numbers. You look at the taxes that are paid. You look at the jobs. It's all about small business... Small business is really big." These were the words of US President Donald Trump when he spoke at the 75th Anniversary of the National Federation ...

New fund to invest in "clean disruption" tech

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 14 AUG 2018
... return index ex Australia in Aussie dollars. The AtlasTrend Online Shopping Spree Fund has returned 13.86%, the AtlasTrend Big Data Big Fund has hit 12.36% while the Splurging Baby Boomers Fund has hit 4.07% in annualised returns to July end since its ...